Issue 21.2
Crime and Punishment: Holding States Accountable
Should states be held responsible and punished for violations of international law? This article argues that they can and should be.
The Inconveniences of Transnational Democracy
Suprastate policy formation in such bodies as the WTO remains fundamentally exclusive of individuals within states. This article critiques the “don’t kill the goose” arguments commonly offered in defense of such exclusions.
Liability and Just Cause
This paper is a response to Jeff McMahan’s “Just Cause for War” (EIA, 19.3, 2005). It defends a more permissive, and more traditional view of just war liability against McMahan’s claims.
Uganda’s Civil War and the Politics of ICC Intervention
The International Criminal Court’s intervention into the ongoing civil war in northern Uganda evoked a chorus of confident predictions as to its capacity to bring peace and justice to the war-torn region. However, this optimism is unwarranted.
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The Human Rights Council: A New Era in UN Human Rights Work? [Full Text]
Kofi Annan did more than any UN secretary-general before him to stress the close link between human rights and peace and security. With the creation of the Human Rights Council, said Annan, “a new era in the human rights work of the United Nations has been proclaimed.”
Editors’ Note [Full Text]
Sometimes change is revolutionary, but more often it tends to be evolutionary. That is why many readers might not even notice that there are a number of changes, both visual and substantive, that distinguish this issue of EIA from those that have come before it.
The Good Fight: Why Liberals–and Only Liberals–Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again by Peter Beinart
Peter Beinart’s new book offers the Democratic Party a “new liberalism,” a vision he bases on the party’s history of moral leadership and success in combating totalitarianism in the post–World War II era.
A Turn to Empire: The Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France by Jennifer Pitts
Jennifer Pitts asserts that imperialism was not essential to the liberal project, as is so often alleged by its critics, most recently and systematically by Uday Singh Mehta in his important study “Liberalism and Empire”.
